When the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) poll results were announced on Friday, some candidates managed to overcome the narrowest vote margins, while others achieved great and comfortable victories.
Raghavendra alias Bapu Deepak Mankar, BJP candidate from ward number 25 (b), won the PMC elections with a maximum margin of 26,497 votes.
Bapu Mankar defeated Sameer Gaikwad of Shivsena (UBT) by securing 31,981 votes. Gaikwad got 5,484 votes. Also, all four BJP candidates from ward 25 (Shaniwar Peth – Mahatma Phule Mandai) emerged victorious. The region is known to be a BJP stronghold.
Mankar is followed by BJP’s Bharatbhushan Barate, who won the election by a margin of 25,027 votes from ward number 32 (b). Barate polled 34,198 votes, defeating Kiran Bartakke of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Bartake obtained 9,171 votes. All BJP candidates from ward 32 (Warje – Popular Nagar) also won the elections.
Then, BJP’s Ratnamala Satav won the election by the third largest margin. He polled 41,514 votes and defeated NCP’s Vasundhara Ubale by 23,136 votes from ward number 4 (b). Ubale received 18,378 votes. Even in ward number 4 (Kharadi – Wagholi), all four BJP candidates won.
Lower margins
BJP’s Khandu Londhe won the election by the lowest margin of just 55 votes, from ward number 17 (a). In a close contest, Londhe polled 14,223 votes, defeating Ashok Kamble, a former NCP corporator, who received 14,168 votes. Three candidates from BJP and one from NCP won the elections from ward number 17 (Ramtekdi – Malwadi – Vaiduwadi).
BJP’s Vivek Yadav defeated Congress’s Avinash Bagwe from ward number 22(d) by a small margin of 62 votes. Yadav got 12,423 votes, compared to 12,361 votes polled by Avinash Bagwe, a former corporator. Avinash’s father Ramesh Bagwe is a former Congress MP and Congress minister. Three BJP and one Congress candidate won the elections from ward number 22 (Kasewadi – Dias Plot).
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NCP’s Ravi Tingre defeated BJP’s Sudhir Waghmode by a margin of just 138 votes from ward number 2 (b).
Tingre got 15,321 votes, while Waghmode received 15,183 votes. All four candidates who won in ward number 2 (Phule Nagar – Nagpur Chawl) are from the NCP.